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Scholarly and Research Communication, 2014

This article features a reflexive iteration of engaged scholarship regarding the Queer Liberation... more This article features a reflexive iteration of engaged scholarship regarding the Queer Liberation Theory Project, a community-based research study with the social justice group Queer Ontario, which involves academics, activists, and artists, a number of whom are cross affiliated. We explore the tensions and challenges involved in developing and creating knowledge via an engaged scholarship process that must respect the historical philosophical perspectives of a social movement as well as today’s academic theories. This article addresses the challenges of developing new knowledge (a theory) that counters a powerful, neoliberal, mainstream segment of today’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements, with implications for society at large. The layered issues associated with engaged scholarship are disentangled, including vulnerability to neoliberalism, navigating competing perspectives, and how academics/activists/artists both understand and engage in knowledge creation.

Labour / Le Travail, 2014

The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously agreed, on 20 December 2013, to strike down as unconstitu... more The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously agreed, on 20 December 2013, to strike down as unconstitutional the Criminal Code of Canada’s three statutes regulating adult prostitution: keeping, transporting someone to, or being an inmate of a common bawdy house (sections 210 and 211); procuring or living on the avails of prostitution (section 212); and communicating in a public place or a place open to public view for the purposes of prostitution (section 213).1 The court rendered this landmark decision because all nine justices on Canada’s highest court were convinced that the legislation, singly and together, created an intolerable situation for those providing sexual services by making it nearly impossible for sex workers to carry out their legal occupation safely. The legislation therefore violated Section 7 guarantees of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2016

Canadian Journal of Sociology, May 29, 2009

Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, 2009

The organized women's suffrage movement, originating in the middle of the nineteenth century and ... more The organized women's suffrage movement, originating in the middle of the nineteenth century and culminating in successes during and immediately after the First World War, struggled for the right of women to vote. The suffrage movement's origins,

Lee Edelman (2004) No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham and London: Duke Universit... more Lee Edelman (2004) No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Abstract: This paper features a reflexive iteration of engaged scholarship regarding the Queer L... more Abstract: This paper features a reflexive iteration of engaged scholarship regarding the Queer Liberation Theory Project, a community-based research study with social justice group Queer Ontario involving academics, activists and artists, a number of whom are cross affiliated. We explore tensions and challenges in developing and creating knowledge via an engaged scholarship process that must cross reference the sensitivities of respecting historical philosophical perspectives of a social movement with today’s academic theories. Addressed are the challenges of developing new knowledge (a theory) that counters a powerful, neoliberal, mainstreamed segment of today’s LGBT movements, with implications for society at large. The layered issues associated with engaged scholarship are disentangled including vulnerability to neoliberalism, navigating competing perspectives and how academics/activists/artists understand and engage in knowledge creation.

Résumé: Cet article propose une itération réflexive d’érudition engagée en ce qui concerne le Queer Liberation Theory Project, une étude de recherche communautaire avec le groupe de justice sociale Queer Ontario impliquant des universitaires, des militants et des artistes, dont un certain nombre ont de multiples affiliations organisationnelles. Nous explorons les tensions et les difficultés liées au développement et à la création de connaissances par le biais d'un processus d'érudition engagée, lequel doit faire le recoupement des sensibilités entourant le respect pour les perspectives philosophiques historiques d'un mouvement social avec les théories académiques d'aujourd'hui. Nous abordons les défis liés au développement de nouvelles connaissances (une théorie) qui s'opposent à un puissant segment néolibéral intégré du mouvement LGBT d'aujourd'hui, avec des implications pour la société en général. Les problèmes associés à l’érudition engagée sont démêlés, y compris la vulnérabilité au néolibéralisme, la navigation de points de vue divergents et comment les universitaires / militants / artistes comprennent et participent à la création de connaissances.

French translation by Mathieu Marcil